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Ahead of the Curve

2020

Documentary, Self: Franco Stevens, Melissa Etheridge, Jewelle Gomez ...

Documentary "Ahead of the Curve" tracks the power of lesbian visibility and community from the early '90s to the present day through the story of Curve magazine.

	Author	Review
United States	Inkoo Kang The Hollywood Reporter	"Zippy, insightful and deeply moving (...) [It] may be most compelling as a time machine"	POS
Canada	Andrew Parker The Gate	"Ahead of the Curve is important, entertaining, and balanced; everything a decently made profile documentary should be."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It’s a staggering story, virtually the American dream in action (...) A valuable portrait of a great risk-taker (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Teo Bugbee The New York Times	"There is a tension in the film between the lesbian experience and lesbianism as a consumer product (...) The film’s subjects are overwhelmingly earnest, but the movie suffers for its substitution of enterprise over entertainment."	NEU
United States	Tracy Brown Los Angeles Times	"While 'Ahead of the Curve' doesn’t offer any solid answers, it does make the case that understanding lesbian history should be a key part in assessing the future"	POS
United States	Jose Solís The Film Stage	Franco’s magnetism draws the viewer in so much that her presence is missed whenever she’s not talking (...) the film feels like a collection of ideas put forth in an amorphous collage."	NEU

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